Part 62 (1/2)

She could only see the outline of his head silhouetted against the wind-tossed sky; she could not see his eyes, nor his lips, but she felt his nearness, and the happiness of that almost caused her to swoon

”Coh she could not see, she could feel that he sh your hair and round your dear head Then, if you can walk so far, there's a small half-way house close by here I have knocked up the none too amiable host You and Aro further on our way”

”But you, Percy?--are you safe?”

”Yes, h to reach Le Portel, and to be aboard the Day-Dream before mine amiable friend M

Chaed and bound inside the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre By Gad! how old Heron will curse--the moment he can open his mouth!”

He half helped, half lifted her out of the carriage The strong pure air suddenly rushi+ng right through to her lungs ood to feel herself falling, when one pair of arst the millions on the earth were there to receive her

”Can you walk, dear heart?” he asked ”Lean well on ood”

”But you, Percy--”

He laughed, and the h that laugh Her arm was in his, and for one moment he stood still while his eyes swept the far reaches of the country, the o, still untouched by theht hand was stretched out towards the black wall of the forest behind hi wind sent its last hs

”Dear heart,” he said, and his voice quivered with the intensity of his excitement, ”beyond the stretch of that wood, frouish that come to my ear even now

But for you, dear, I would cross that wood to-night and re-enter Paris to-morrow But for you, dear--but for you,” he reiterated earnestly as he pressed her closer to him, for a bitter cry had risen to her lips

She went on in silence Her happiness was great--as great as was her pain She had found hiain, the ht never to see again on earth She had found him, and not even now--not after those terrible weeks ofunspeakable--could she feel that love had triumphed over the wild, adventurous spirit, the reckless enthusiasm, the ardour of self-sacrifice

CHAPTER XLIX THE LAND OF ELDORADO

It seems that in the pocket of Heron's coat there was a letter-case with so to think that the brute's money helped to bribe the ill-teuests at ht, and to ply them ith food, drink, and the shelter of a stuffy coffee-roouerite sat silently beside her husband, her hand in his Armand, opposite to them, had both elbows on the table He looked pale and ith a bandage across his forehead, and his glowing eyes were resting on his chief